Quote from: Hooksfan on August 19, 2012, 03:32:54 PM
JAKES events are BY FAR the best thing NWTF has going for it.
Both of my kids are members and I have been involved with JAKES events for 20 years.
I agree it is the best thing that they have associated with their name and is a big reason the majority of folks in our area go to the banquet each year as they think that money is what pays for our JAKES event.
The sad truth is we gross over $30k a year at our banquet and get an average of around a $250 check to our chapter from the banquet which is ridiculous to most who know the truth.
They then give you a $350 check that is supposed to put on the JAKES event. If we use what we got from the banquet it combines for a whopping $600.
We purchase an average of 125 T=shirts to give every kid that comes which totals up to be just over $700
We have other fundraisers throughout the year (outside the NWTF) such as chicken-n-beer dances, gun raffles etc to pay for food, drink, ammunition, supplies and prizes.
I am getting a lot of people making the comments
"why do you even have a banquet if that is all the $ that comes back to the area? Couldn't you just have the youth day yourselves if that is all they do?"It is hard to justify an answer to the public when inside yourself you agree....
